This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.

~   Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice (via sunsetical)
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05.14.13 /19:55/♥ 1750

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

~   A. A. Milne  (via danmaru)
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05.11.13 /23:55/♥ 3735

I firmly believe in small gestures: pay for their coffee, hold the door for strangers, over tip, smile or try to be kind even when you don’t feel like it, pay compliments, chase the kid’s runaway ball down the sidewalk and throw it back to him, try to be larger than you are— particularly when it’s difficult. People do notice, people appreciate. I appreciate it when it’s done to (for) me. Small gestures can be an effort, or actually go against our grain (“I’m not a big one for paying compliments…”), but the irony is that almost every time you make them, you feel better about yourself. For a moment life suddenly feels lighter, a bit more Gene Kelly dancing in the rain.

~   Jonathan Carroll (via themilkywhiteway)
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05.11.13 /23:51/♥ 32902

“I love October,” she said, looking away from the street. “Don’t you love October?”

“This is still September.”

“I can love October in September. September doesn’t care.”

~   Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year (via bookoasis)
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05.08.13 /21:21/♥ 816

My advice to young poets? Devastate me. That’s the only thing poetry is for.

~   Richard Siken (source: katherinerebeccanoble, via vertere)
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05.08.13 /21:07/♥ 54

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

~   Agatha Christie (via xiv-iii)
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05.08.13 /21:00/♥ 8796

Be yourself. You’re okay.

~   Yohji Yamamoto (via freyaloveschamomile)
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05.07.13 /11:47/♥ 19141

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don’t.

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Kurt Vonnegut  (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

i know what i want, just not if i want it enough.

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05.07.13 /11:45/♥ 6415

Write it down. Whatever you feel like saying write it down instead. What you never told anyone. What you never even told yourself. And don’t fear exposure.

~   My So-Called Life  (via atdirmaq)
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05.07.13 /11:43/♥ 1161

It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

~    Hugh Laurie (via silkandmarble)
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